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The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Spain passed the 115 mark yesterday. While the majority have been found in patients who had traveled abroad, there are five groups where the origin is as yet unknown. This situation is currently worrying Spanish health authorities, who are trying to find the root of the contagion, identify their contacts and stop short any further possible transmissions. The Health Ministry is looking closely […]

Life expectancy in Spain rose by 1.17 years on average in the last decade, according to the ministry of health and the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Women live on average to age 85 years and nearly 11 months, and men to 80 years and just under six months, women who live the longest are in Madrid, reaching 87 years and nearly two months and Navarra, at 86 years and […]

Tens of thousands of Catalan independence supporters gathered in Perpignan, southern France, on Saturday at a rally in support of exiled former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who called on the crowd to prepare for the “definitive struggle” for independence. At around 30km from the Spanish border, it is the closest Puigdemont has been to Spain since he fled the country in October 2017 after calling a referendum on independence. Puigdemont, […]

Divers have found the body of 38 year old Commander Eduardo Fermín Garvalena, the pilot who crashed his training jet into the Mediterranean close to La Manga on Thursday afternoon. He was was found still strapped into his seat, inside the cockpit of the C101 aircraft that is still largely intact.

After more cases of coronavirus in Spain there is still no news of the whereabouts of a so-called “super spreader”. There are now more than 50 cases here, but while most of the infections can be explained by simple contact with another infected person, there are some that cannot be easily explained. MW - Regional health authorities have confirmed an Italian national staying at the Adeje Palace hotel in Tenerife […]